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Action bar popup background is not changing

#style/Theme.MyAppTheme.ActionBar
<item name="android:popupMenuStyle">#style/popupMenuStyle</item>
<item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme">#style/Theme.MyTheme.Widget</item>
<item name="android:actionBarItemBackground">#null</item>
<item name="android:listPreferredItemHeightSmall">45dp</item>
<style name="popupMenuStyle" parent="#android:style/Widget.PopupMenu">
<item name="android:popupBackground">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
<style name="Theme.MyTheme.Widget" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo">
<item name="android:textColor">#0675bc</item>
<item name="android:background">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
I have an activity which is having action bar overflow menu and my custom pop up menu I am using Theme.MyTheme.Widget in the above code it is working fine but the problem is I am using search view in action bar in another activity.Now the problem is if I am using the above code to change the overflow menu background this changes are applying to the search bar also which I don't need

if you API is minimum API level 14 , you can change with this (worked for me).
<style name="Theme.myapp" parent="#style/Theme.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionDropDownStyle">#style/myapp_DropDownNav</item>
<item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme">#style/myapp.actionBarWidgetTheme</item>
</style>
<style name="myapp.actionBarWidgetTheme" parent="#style/Theme.">
<item name="android:spinnerDropDownItemStyle">#style/myapp.Widget.DropDownItem.Spinner</item>
</style>
<style name="myapp_DropDownNav" parent="#style/Widget.Spinner.DropDown.ActionBar">
<item name="background">#drawable/spinner_background_ab_myapp</item>
<item name="android:background">#drawable/spinner_background_ab_myapp</item>
<item name="android:popupBackground">#drawable/menu_dropdown_panel_myapp</item>
<item name="android:dropDownSelector">#drawable/selectable_background_myapp</item>
</style>
<style name="myapp.Widget.DropDownItem.Spinner" parent="Widget.DropDownItem.Spinner">
<item name="android:textAppearance">#style/myapp.TextAppearance.Widget.DropDownItem</item>
</style>
<style name="myapp.TextAppearance.Widget.DropDownItem" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.DropDownItem">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/black</item>
</style>
if you are using ActionBarSherlock (minimun API level 9), try this:
<style name="Theme.yourapp" parent="#style/Theme.Sherlock.Light">
<item name="popupMenuStyle">#style/PopupMenu.Style</item>
<item name="dropDownListViewStyle">#style/DropDownListView.Style</item> </style>
<style name="PopupMenu.Style" parent="#style/Widget.Sherlock.Light.ListPopupWindow">
<item name="android:popupBackground">#drawable/your_background</item>
</style>
<style name="DropDownListView.Style" parent="#style/Widget.Sherlock.Light.ListView.DropDown">
<item name="android:listSelector">#drawable/your_background</item>
</style>
Hope it helps you!!

Change Color of Actionbar in Android

I am trying to change the background color of actionbar in my App but this is showing different on my app. Instead of coloring the actionbar the whole activity is color.
I am not sure why this is happening? I just want the main actionbar and settings actionbar colored.
Please check the screenshot.
Main Activity Map:
Preference Settings:
I also have transparent Actionbar with UP Navigation enabled for all my sub activities other than the main activity and preference settings activity.
I am not sure why it is showing like the above:
Here is style.xml (values-v14):
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#FF5050</item>
</style>
<style name="dialogtheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar"></style>
<!-- Transparent ActionBar Style -->
<style name="AppTheme.Light.ActionBar.Transparent" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#android:color/transparent</item>
</style>
<!-- Activity Theme with transparent ActionBar -->
<style name="AppTheme.TransparentActionBar.Light" parent="#style/AppBaseTheme">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/AppTheme.Light.ActionBar.Transparent</item>
<item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
<item name="android:backgroundDimEnabled">true</item>
<item name="android:windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
<item name="android:windowContentOverlay">#null</item>
<item name="android:displayOptions">showHome|homeAsUp|showTitle</item>
<item name="android:icon">#android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="android:actionBarTabTextStyle">#style/ActionBarTabTextStyle.Tabtheme</item>
<item name="android:actionBarDivider">#drawable/verticallinefordivder</item>
<item name="android:actionBarTabStyle">#style/ActionBarTabStyle.MapsLocation</item>
</style>
<style name="simpledialog" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog">
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBarTabTextStyle.Tabtheme" parent="#style/AppBaseTheme">
<item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>
<item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/black</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBarTabStyle.MapsLocations" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.TabView">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/tab_indicator</item>
</style>
<style name="myPreferenceTheme" parent="#style/AppBaseTheme">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/blue</item>
</style>
<style name="Widget.ActionButton" parent="#style/AppBaseTheme">
<item name="android:background">?android:attr/actionBarItemBackground</item>
<item name="android:paddingLeft">12dip</item>
<item name="android:paddingRight">12dip</item>
<item name="android:minWidth">56dip</item>
<item name="android:minHeight">?android:attr/actionBarSize</item>
</style>
</resources>

A little change and you action bar will be red:
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/AppTheme.Light.ActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="dialogtheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar"></style>
<!-- Transparent ActionBar Style -->
<style name="AppTheme.Light.ActionBar" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#FF5050</item>
</style>
I have changed item in AppBaseTheme & AppTheme.Light.ActionBar .
Now you are good to go. let me know if it works however working at my end :P

You can try set custom view in action bar.
actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
actionBar.setCustomView(you_custom_layout);

I know this is not right answer to this question but if you want to edit your ActionBar, you can use this online Android Action Bar Style Generator.
At least you can create a style and check yours to find differences and learn how to edit your ActionBar.

Android TextColor

Does anyone know the way in which i am meant to code the change i want to make to the color of the ActionBar? I have tried using android:textColor , and android:color , as well as various other things. It seems like a quite a hassle for me. Although there is most probably a simple solution for this. Does anyone have any ideas?
Note: i am trying to make the font color white - from what i can tell, Android does this from the "actionbar.solid.pp" style.
<style name="Theme.Pp" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarItemBackground">#drawable/selectable_background_pp</item>
<item name="android:popupMenuStyle">#style/PopupMenu.Pp</item>
<item name="android:dropDownListViewStyle">#style/DropDownListView.Pp</item>
<item name="android:actionBarTabStyle">#style/ActionBarTabStyle.Pp</item>
<item name="android:actionDropDownStyle">#style/DropDownNav.Pp</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar.Solid.Pp</item>
<item name="android:actionModeBackground">#drawable/cab_background_top_pp</item>
<item name="android:actionModeSplitBackground">#drawable/cab_background_bottom_pp</item>
<item name="android:actionModeCloseButtonStyle">#style/ActionButton.CloseMode.Pp</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar.Solid.Pp" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid">
<item name="android:background">#111</item>
<item name="android:color">#FFF</item>
<item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
<item name="android:progressBarStyle">#style/ProgressBar.Pp</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar.Transparent.Pp" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/ab_transparent_pp</item>
<item name="android:progressBarStyle">#style/ProgressBar.Pp</item>
</style>
<style name="PopupMenu.Pp" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ListPopupWindow">
<item name="android:popupBackground">#drawable/menu_dropdown_panel_pp</item>
</style>
<style name="DropDownListView.Pp" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ListView.DropDown">
<item name="android:listSelector">#drawable/selectable_background_pp</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBarTabStyle.Pp" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.TabView">
<item name="android:background">#ffffff</item>
</style>
<style name="DropDownNav.Pp" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.Spinner">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/spinner_background_ab_pp</item>
<item name="android:popupBackground">#drawable/menu_dropdown_panel_pp</item>
<item name="android:dropDownSelector">#drawable/selectable_background_pp</item>
</style>
<style name="ProgressBar.Pp" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ProgressBar.Horizontal">
<item name="android:progressDrawable">#drawable/progress_horizontal_pp</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionButton.CloseMode.Pp" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionButton.CloseMode">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/btn_cab_done_pp</item>
</style>
<!-- this style is only referenced in a Light.DarkActionBar based theme -->
<style name="Theme.Pp.Widget" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo">
<item name="android:popupMenuStyle">#style/PopupMenu.Pp</item>
<item name="android:dropDownListViewStyle">#style/DropDownListView.Pp</item>
</style>

Changing the action bar's text color is shown on the developer guide Styling the Action Bar

I think you can use this free tool to customize the style:
http://jgilfelt.github.io/android-actionbarstylegenerator/#name=example&compat=holo&theme=light&actionbarstyle=solid&texture=0&hairline=0&neutralPressed=1&backColor=E4E4E4%2C100&secondaryColor=D6D6D6%2C100&tabColor=33B5E5%2C100&tertiaryColor=F2F2F2%2C100&accentColor=33B5E5%2C100&cabBackColor=FFFFFF%2C100&cabHighlightColor=33B5E5%2C100

styling drop down/navigation bar actionbarsherlock font

In the application I have, I would like to have the actionbar drop down's font to be white. Till now I have the following style:
<style name="Theme.MyApplications" parent="#style/Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar.Solid</item>
<item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar.Title" parent="TextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar.SubTitle" parent="TextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Subtitle">
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar.Solid" parent="#style/Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar.Solid">
<item name="titleTextStyle">#style/ActionBar.Title</item>
<item name="subtitleTextStyle">#style/ActionBar.SubTitle</item>
</style>
This style gives me a black colored font in android 3.0 and higher. Can someone please help me configure the font to be white ?
The funny thing about this is that the action overflow popup's font appears in white.

for now I just used the simple
<style name="Theme.MyApplications" parent="#style/Theme.Sherlock">
<item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
</style>
Its simple but it got the job done. And what got the job done was the change in the style's parent.

You have apply the style to the native ActionBar as well:
<style name="Theme.MyApplications" parent="#style/Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar.Solid</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar.Solid</item>
<item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar.Title" parent="TextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar.SubTitle" parent="TextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Subtitle">
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar.Solid" parent="#style/Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar.Solid">
<item name="titleTextStyle">#style/ActionBar.Title</item>
<item name="subtitleTextStyle">#style/ActionBar.SubTitle</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/ActionBar.Title</item>
<item name="android:subtitleTextStyle">#style/ActionBar.SubTitle</item>
</style>

Styling Action Bar Sherlock

I am trying to implement styling on my Action Bar Sherlock on the following:
Basically the actionbar overflow is to be styled in regards to its background color. I did try the following approach.
<style name="GCTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light">
<item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
<item name="actionDropDownStyle">#style/MyDropDown</item>
</style>
<style name="MyDropDown" parent="Widget.Sherlock.Spinner.DropDown.ActionBar">
<item name="android:popupBackground">#7D7D7D</item>
</style>
I also did try implementing the android:actionMenuTextColor and also the android:actionOverflowButton but it says that API 11 or higher is required... Any idea on how this is to be implemented ? Please help.

<style name="GCTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light">
<item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
<item name="actionDropDownStyle">#style/MyDropDown</item>
<item name="popupMenuStyle">#style/PopupMenu.Example</item>
<item name="android:background">#00BFFF</item>
</style>
<style name="MyDropDown" parent="Widget.Sherlock.Spinner.DropDown.ActionBar">
<item name="android:popupBackground">#7D7D7D</item>
</style>
<style name="PopupMenu.Example" parent="#style/Widget.Sherlock.Light.ListPopupWindow">
<item name="android:popupBackground">#7D7D7D</item>
</style>